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by throw0101d 320 days ago
In the BBS days there were transfer programs that allowed for interrupted downloads to be resumed:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS/Link

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wget will pick up a dl where it left off. i know that "pick up where you left off" capability has been built into HTTP since the mid '90s if not right from scratch

i used to use that feature to run several downloads from several different sites of different sections of linux distro isos when new releases were put up